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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022

Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment...

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Job polarization and the declining fortunes of the young : evidence from the United Kingdom

Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2019

This paper uses a life-cycle framework to document new stylized facts about the nexus between job polarization and earnings inequality. Using quarterly labor force data for the UK over the period 2000-2018, we find clear life-cycle profiles in the probability of being employed within each...

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Labor market reforms and earnings dynamics : the Italian case

Hoffmann, Eran B.; Malacrino, Davide; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2021

This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and earnings volatility increased, while earnings...

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Structural reforms and regional convergence

Spilimbergo, Antonio; Che, Natasha Xingyuan - 2012

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Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality : Evidence From India

Mishra, Prachi - 2005

We evaluate empirically the impact of the dramatic 1991 trade liberalization in India on the industry wage structure. The empirical strategy uses variation in industry wage premiums and trade policy across industries and over time. In contrast to earlier studies on developing countries, we find...

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Why is China Growing so Fast?

Khan, Mohsin S. - 1996

China has been growing at a spectacular rate in recent years, enabling per capita incomes to almost quadruple in only … the last decade and a half This paper identifies the sources of economic growth in China from 1953 to 1994. While capital … accumulation played an important role in China’s economic growth throughout the period, it is basically the sharp and sustained …

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The path to higher growth : does revamping Japan’s dual labor market matter?

Aoyagi, Chie; Ganelli, Giovanni - 2013

This paper argues that Japan’s excessive labor market duality can reduce Total Factor Productivity (TFP) due to a negative impact on non-regular workers’ effort and on firms’ incentives to train them. On the basis of cross-country empirical evidence, the paper proposes some reform options....

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Dismal employment growth in EU countries : the role of corporate balance sheet repair and dual labor markets

Bakker, Bas B.; Zeng, Li - 2013

This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large extent driven by the need to adjust corporate balance sheets, which had greatly deteriorated during the boom years in some countries but not in others. To close the large gaps...

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Role of individual characteristics and policies in driving labor informality in Vietnam

Dabla-Norris, Era; Giovanni, Ganelli; Anh Thi Ngoc Nguyen; … - 2020

Using data from the Vietnam Labor Force Survey, this paper takes a granular look at the most salient drivers of labor informality in Vietnam by examining: (i) the nature of labor informality and transitions from formal to informal employment status and the role of worker characteristics; (ii)...

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Debt, investment, and growth in developing countries with segmented labor markets

Buffie, Edward F.; Zanna, Luis-Felipe; Adam, Christopher S. - 2020

We introduce a new suite of macroeconomic models that extend and complement the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG) model widely used at the IMF since 2012. The new DIG-Labor models feature segmented labor markets, efficiency wages and open unemployment, and an informal non-agricultural sector....

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